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Schiff: Afghanistan ‘Intelligence Was Pretty Good’ — Question Is Why Didn’t Biden Have Contingency Plans in Place
Breitbart ^ | 09/30/2021 | Trent Baker

Posted on 09/30/2021 8:39:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Thursday on “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sounded off on Gen. Mark Milley reportedly blaming the State Department for the botched withdrawal out of Afghanistan.

Schiff noted that the “intelligence was pretty good” and said there are “profound questions” about why the Biden administration didn’t have contingency plans in place for what was a “foreseeable” outcome.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; afghanistan; biden; breitbart; california; intelligence; markmilley; mediawingofthednc; nonetoobreitbart; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; schiff; statedepartment; trentbaker
Intelligence was pretty good??? Profound questions?? Diapers screwed up bad and it cost life's. Nice spin.
1 posted on 09/30/2021 8:39:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Gosh, yes, didn't Schiff do such a good job? More shilling from Breitbart.

2 posted on 09/30/2021 8:50:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Question Is Why Didn’t Biden Have Contingency Plans in Place

You mean besides the fact that he is showing signs of cognitive decline due to age and that he was incapable of doing this job on the best day he ever had in his life?

3 posted on 09/30/2021 8:51:33 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schiff looking for a fall guy - who should have come up with a “contingency plan.”

Biden and his masters didn’t want no “contingency plan.” The objective was to get the troops out of Afghanistan before Sept. 11th, no matter what.


4 posted on 09/30/2021 8:56:27 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The question is not whether Biden had a contingency plan in place - he didn't - but why he canceled the contingency plans that were already in place. A strong leader with an agreement in hand was displaced illegitimately by a weak one with only his own self-celebration in view. A staff that should have updated those contingency plans did not. A field army that should have been supported was dealt a crap hand and told to play it. What happened did so because of all this.

Schiff is, as he has in the past, hiding behind the "I've got a secret" nature of the Intelligence Committee and his magical intelligence that was supposedly "pretty good" is apparently not good enough to see the light of day. He has no credibility, no honor, no case.

5 posted on 09/30/2021 8:59:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No one expected the collapse that quickly. That I do believe.

I think the political strategy was to sync our withdraw and the end of the war with September 11 (20 year anniversary). Have a big speech. Declare victory. Then a year later when everything goes to shit blame the Afghanis or others here...

I don’t think it worked out for them.


6 posted on 09/30/2021 9:03:22 AM PDT by Red6
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Military expert Schiff noted that the “intelligence was pretty good.”


7 posted on 09/30/2021 9:07:01 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since Schiff is evil - we can assume whoever’s attempting to destroy our country has decided to dump Biden...


8 posted on 09/30/2021 9:10:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (A million illegals a day starting next summer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The chaotic withdraw and leaving behind citizens, the implosion of their government so rapidly, clearly puts the onus on the administration. There was to much media coverage, to many images, testimony... Even a media favourable to this administration can’t really burry this or break the obvious link. The stinky smell of the turd they left behind is going to stick to them.

Had they gotten their delay / some time before the collapse, the average person wouldn’t associate the implosion of Afghanistan with the administration, necessarily. The administration would be able to push the blame on the Afghanis (which they tried anyway), and point fingers in the US across the aisle...


9 posted on 09/30/2021 9:11:27 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Red6

“No one expected the collapse that quickly. That I do believe.”

Make that “No one calling the shots”


10 posted on 09/30/2021 9:25:44 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: RAldrich
The objective was to get the troops out of Afghanistan before Sept. 11th, no matter what.

He wanted the last troops out ON Sepember 11th , so he could do a "mission accomplished" photo op. Instead, the Taliban stuck their finger in his eye.

11 posted on 09/30/2021 9:25:46 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump left Biden a logical plan and it confused the hell out of Biden like everything else does.


12 posted on 09/30/2021 10:03:03 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Question Is Why Didn’t Biden Have Contingency Plans in Place
***Because Biden wanted it this way.


13 posted on 09/30/2021 10:28:37 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All I know is that we’re paying way too much for a CIA, an NSA, a State Department and in “Intelligence” Community.


14 posted on 09/30/2021 11:33:03 AM PDT by The Public Eye
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Trump just had an overcrowded plane getting people out, Schiff would have been screaming “impeach!” F’n hypocrite.


15 posted on 09/30/2021 4:43:17 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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